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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  cultures should happen on the day I was getting ready to leave one for the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... "Intro to World Music". The class is taught by Professor Tang, who is an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... slower, steps to a solution instead of the small and fast steps of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... perfectly reasonable direction for that conversation to take," I just want say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  by a friend. How did you come up with the name for your blog? This is ... Matt McGann. I was introduced to him in January 2005 by a mutual friend ... to get advice on UA stuff (I still do this - Ben teases me and says

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  entry to mention a great school that often gets overlooked by students ... Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense ... , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which ... encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to ... deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  to see how the totals turn out. 13. Get ready for your freaking sweet ... opportunity to make similar memories for yourselves. The first word of the MIT ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... . It was a no-brainer -- I hustled to Next House as fast as possible and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... before about FIRST, which was a transformational experience for me as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  the lighting, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. Live ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... creates its own design specific to your class year. Then they reveal the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... for me is to do work as early as possible to minimize the late nights ... How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education ... enabling new research in every discipline and new solutions to daunting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  year. It’s also a time to take a class to get ahead for the upcoming ... taking cool photos to attempting to break the world record for mattress ... and on your own for a few weeks. It’s a good thing to know that you can

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway ... assumed, "EC" is short for East Campus.) REX is a period during which new ... was held in Walker Memorial (Building 50) for new freshmen and their

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... 're a geek, you won't be able to escape hearing about MIT; even for MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... weird adjusting to a new dorm culture as a senior, particularly because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  roommate by accident, [annotation note="bikes are literally so fast. I got ... [/annotation] , and got to the office on the fourth floor of building 4 for the ... in one night, but intentionally working to get caught up and do well in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  for getting to and from class a little more expeditiously--as the ... have to get there by 4 PM to pick one up. With a bike, this is no problem ... new gaseous and combustible form of water discovered by some guy at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006